Sentences with phrase «interpreted as myth»

(3) If many stories may be interpreted as myth, how are we to protect the historical basis of Christian belief?

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Having created the myth of the black's extraordinary sexual prowess, the white male interprets such a case as an affront to his ego, his virility and his property.

Such absolutisms included a heroic myth about U.S. history interpreted as the rise of «the successful male white Protestant, whose features were turned into ideals for the entire human race.»

Now I agree to stay within these bounds of meaning as long as we are simply trying to understand Bultmann, or to interpret him; but the moment we get beyond these tasks to the larger constructive task of a postliberal theology, I want to take issue with this way of dealing with myth.

This is a very important point, and it largely depends on how we interpret the word «resurrection» as to what we would expect to find if the myth were to include an appropriate description of it.

His book The Word as Truth Myth: Interpreting Modern Theology is to be published this year (1997) by Westminster John Knox.

For the theologian will never be able to interpret the pagan myths in the same way as the pagan historian of religion does.

The Easter event, as interpreted by the myth of resurrection, has inaugurated the long awaited reconstitution of all things.

Because Jung wrote about myth and considered all religions worthy of study and respect, many have wrongly assumed that he interpreted religion as myth in the sense that it is deluded belief, something childish and meant only for the unthinking masses.

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In the case of Harpur's theory (that Jesus didn't exist, and that deliberate efforts have been made to choose to make the myths interpreted literally), his evidence is not as convincing or as extensive as the evidence for Jesus having been a real person, on whom a certain religious and political systems have been formed and which have embellished, perverted, and developed certain aspects, with intentions both deliberate and unintentional.

The Cinderella myth, as Perrault interpreted it, is at best anachronistic — we learn that beauty is a virtue but that grace is a gift... whatever that means.